We’ve been in our retirement setting for nearly two years already! They do say that time flies when you’re busy, and a lot has gone on during the fly past! During that time, the jungle that passed for the back 1/4 acre garden has had all the brambles (formerly the National Collection!) and nettles removedContinue reading “Time moves swiftly onwards…”
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The Seasons…
….they are a’changing. Mornings have a distinct autumn chill about them and the mists referred to by Keats in his poem on the subject have begun to lurk across the valley in front of us and off to the right, where the River Shannon meanders its way to Portumna, Loch Derg, Limerick and the Atlantic.Continue reading “The Seasons…”
Felice anno nuovo…
…might well have been the greeting to you all at this time of the year, but that would have been from the time when retirement plans were angled very much towards La bella Italia. Having bought a des res on about 0.6 of an Irish acre (about a quarter bigger than one of our EnglishContinue reading “Felice anno nuovo…”
Time Marches On…
…and we all have to do our best to keep up with it. Or do we? Surely, the truth of the matter must be that time is our master and, no matter what we do or don’t do, it will always march on regardless. The problem of our modern world must rather be one ofContinue reading “Time Marches On…”
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